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  5. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

    How many Newcastle fans are now making plans for their next meeting? Next Sunday is Fathers Day. Don’t know what I’d think of my son if an afternoon at Brough Park was my present!

    No home meeting next Sunday… 
    The hoppings ( big fair , (to those who don’t know) and burger van sales suddenly spring to mind ( only joking I think ) 

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    3 minutes ago, kevin bass said:

    The sadly ain't enough riders who want to ride over here and the ones that do will ride where they want to ride and no doubt chase the best money available, in an ideal world the top riders would be spread evenly cross the clubs and each club have 2 big hitter/heat leaders but that's never going to happen so you get the situation like we have now, Poole a Leicester have 3 big hitters and teams like Newcastle and Birmingham can't even get one let alone a couple.

    Don’t know how the guest payment works but if say the Kyle Howarth’s, Ricky Wells, Richie and Stevie Worralls and Lewis Kerr’s etc are willing to guest for Newcastle and are expected to  score double figures everytime is it not the same as giving big money to 1 rider who you  would expect to score double figures everytime ? 

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  13. Posted · Edited by KEITH M

    1 hour ago, Yearbyred said:

    It’s been re-scheduled with about 5 days notice, due to a lack of volunteers. (That’s the official reason given).

    To compare it to the other issues we have seen this year is ridiculous.

    You aren’t going to attend because it’s on a different date? 

     

    And 5 days is more than 4,3,2 and 1 day ….. What would others of said about Redcar speedway if they had said nothing, had riders travel from all over the country and let everyone in on Sunday and then called the meeting off 10 minutes before the start due to a lack of volunteers ( yes people who give up time with their own families to help out and don’t get paid) I can imagine this thread would of been red hot with stinging criticism come 5:30 on Sunday night 

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    46 minutes ago, mikebv said:

    You pretty much always get your money's worth with Bomber, so the more he is in action, the more the entertainment value..

    However, in a broader context..

    It does render the competitions somewhat "Mickey Mouse", which must be extremely hard to sell to a wider fan base, sponsors, and media...

    Since Rory retired, and Scott seems to have reduced his activity to focus on his media career (within which he is doing a great job for me),  it has left only Bomber from the regular go to "Three Guestketeers" of the past few seasons..

    Meaning that out of the three, only "Harramis" is left...;):D

     

     

    Steve Worrall used to be another member of the guest merry go round 

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  15. Posted · Edited by KEITH M

    2 hours ago, Dinosaur said:

    Quite apart from the poor team there’s one glaring issue that never gets mentioned and that’s the time it takes Newcastle speedway to run a meeting.  Starting at 4pm and finishing at 6:30pm just isn’t acceptable.  There were no major incidents just small delay after small delay mainly due to a lack of organisation.   Why not water the track for example while the medical officer was with Wethers !  Instead we had a delay for both !  No skirting on the air fence,  green light not working, tapes getting broken by the photographer. All silly little things that are down to a lack of professionalism.   During the delays the entertainment is dire. Roy’s drivel bores anyone to death and he interviews a random bloke off a radio station, a fan who happened to be on the center green plus a basketball player!  If you’re gonna have endless delays while people feed their faces on expensive burgers at least let’s hear from the riders or team managers. Overall it’s just a poor night out now ! 

    Some people just like to moan. If it was over in an hour someone would say what was the point in stepping out the house. Jeff King has done brilliantly to push speedway on Nova radio and deserved some recognision. Young lad was 21 yesterday and is autistic, he'll remember that for the rest of his life and Lewi the Basketball player had his photo taken by his partner and it'll be on social media so we may get a few of the many fans who go and watch the Eagles come to see what HE likes. He paid in and said it was brilliant and he would tell all his mates ..With thoughts like yours , no wonder the dinosaur is extinct..

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  19. Posted

    Don’t know why they didn’t call it off after the heavy shower as most people around me ( and myself) said  it was going to be abandoned. Unless it was to give the juniors a chance after waiting patiently I and others couldn’t understand why they wanted to run heat 15 as Redcar had the 3 points and it was only Edinburgh who should lose out if they conceded a 4-2 or a 5-1.. How would Redcar fans of felt if Lewis Kerr or Erik Riss been injured in the re run? 

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  20. Posted · Edited by KEITH M

    2 hours ago, Skidder1 said:

    Stream was good. Very long grading breaks though with just a bit of background noise. I think Redcar need a DJ like Karl at Poole as I couldn't help but smile at the rendition of Clive Dunn's 'Grandad'!!! 40-50 will do for me.

    I was at the meeting and they played that song as a birthday request for a Redcar fan who had just became a Grandad 

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, ruffdiamond said:

    It's a pity they couldn't put the match back a bit, so that folk could go to speedway then watch the footy later,,, or they could tape it and no-one tell them the score, a mean  the telly is available 24/7 these days!!!

    Would love to see the reaction at Premier League headquarters when Manchester City and Sky request that the kick off needs to be put back to 7:45 as a few Newcastle Diamonds fans need to go and watch their team at 4:00 

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